IB Visual Arts LINCOLN SCHOOL Costa Rica: PAOLA PEREZ IB Visual Arts Lincon School Costa Rica

The Artist Statement

Paola Perez

Along my 2 years of art exploration I've been working in two big problems in society. The topics I’ve been working along these years are animal abuse and how society ruins you little by little. Most of my art pieces are a representation of how society hides the real you, something that affects millions of people now a day, in the other hand animal abuse is something that interests me a lot because of my future carrier which is becoming a vet and saving all the animals i can from these danger. I’m really concerned about the problem the way they suffer and how people ignore this problematic happening around the world. Along my media testing I’ve been trying to show a good example of these problems in a very indirect and visual way.

The artist that has been a big inspiration is Salvador Dali which as a surrealist painter with amazing pieces that has inspired me in most of my paintings. It is important also to mention that he is a great artist and that I love every single one of his paintings because they are original and that is what I tried to do with my art works.

I was inspired by many artists such as Salvador Dali and Caravaggio which inspired me in several of my artworks. The artistic movement that in used in some of my pieces is surrealism which is a technique interpreting the subconscious to create realities. The other topic I worked with was the critique to society and how we are ruined and covered by its demands. These two years of artwork were a discovery of my abilities in different media.